The Heroic Agencies Vision
We envision a future where clients' heroic stories overshadow descriptions of illness and client-directed partnerships revolutionize "mental health" as we know it.
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The Heart and Soul Conference
June 10-12, 2004
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Words of the Wise - Quotes from the Past and the Present
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones are not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
The cloning of humans is one most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Law
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker (1925 - )
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Psychiatry is a lucrative business only insofar as it partakes of these two medical-psychiatric privileges or monopolies — prescribing drugs, which only licensed physicians can do; and creating their own patients, that is, transforming people into patients against their will, which only psychiatrists can do. Thomas Szasz